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Amanda Knox, the U.S. college student cleared of murder by an Italian court after four years in prison, will talk publicly about the trial for the first time to ABC News in April, the network said on Monday.
VATICAN CITY — Citing advanced years and infirmity, but showing characteristic tough-mindedness and unpredictability,Pope Benedict XVI, shocked Roman Catholics on Monday by saying that he would resign on Feb. 28, becoming the first pope to do so in six centuries.
The Italian oil giant Eni said Thursday that Milan prosecutors had expanded their investigation of alleged corruption in Algeria involving Saipem, the company’s oil services subsidiary, to include ENI itself and its chief executive, Paolo Scaroni.
January performance figures for the film industry in recession-hit Italy were the worst in five years, statistics agency Cinetel said Thursday.
Italy is staging its own version of the ‘The Full Monty’ musical comedy adapted to fit the hard times facing the country. Among the cast are Spanish actor, singer and model Sergio Múñiz, Italian actor and singer Jacopo Sarno, and Italian actor and presenter Paolo Ruffini.
The Italian notion of la bella figura, or looking good, stretches back to the Ancient Roman times – or so it would seem thanks to recent research that reveal Roman children wore shoes that reflected their parents’ social status.
A piece of a 16th-century fresco that fell from the ceiling of a corridor in Florence's Uffizi Gallery on Wednesday happened when a worker stepped through the floor from the storey above. The piece, which has a diameter of around 30cm, did not hit any visitors as it fell.
A mystery love letter has been discovered in the Colosseum where it was hidden 60 years ago. The letter, which dates back to the early 1950s, was written by Domenico and addressed to Franca.
The day after the Metropolitan Opera in New York unveiled a production ofVerdi's "Rigoletto" set in Las Vegas during the 1960s. I was in Belgium, where another exercise in operatic updating is underway at theTheatre royal de la Monnaie. Here, Mariusz Trelinski’s staging of Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut” — through Feb. 8 — situates the opera in the waiting room of a subway station.
The Columbus Citizens Foundation has invited the National Organization of Italian American Women (NOIAW), Staten Island Network, to present its program on the history of Carnevale at a Feb. 21 networking cocktail party for foundation members and members of NOIAW in the foundation’s Manhattan townhouse at 8 East 69th St